Challenges for securing the Hadoop ecosystem
Big Data not only brings challenges for storing, processing, and analysis but also for managing and securing these large data assets. Hadoop was not built with security to begin with. As enterprises started adopting Hadoop, the Kerberos-based security model evolved within Hadoop. But given the distributed nature of the ecosystem and wide range of applications that are built on top of Hadoop, securing Hadoop from an enterprise context is a big challenge.
A typical Big Data ecosystem has multiple stakeholders who interact with the system. For example, expert users (business analysts and data scientists) within the organization would interact with the ecosystem using business intelligence (BI) and analytical ...
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